Everything posted by russt68
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Kate Bush ° Running Up That Hill
great choice..... absolutely beautiful song :wub:
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Kate Bush ° Running Up That Hill
she has done a few odd live appearances since.... I seem to remember one with her and Dave Gilmour from a few years back, there used to be a grainy video of it on YouTube. As for a definitive Kate top 10...hmm... difficult.... mine seems to change with my mood... but I'll get scouring my Kate albums and get back on this one....
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The CD Single/Album Cover Design Comp
love it :heart:
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Cover Voting Thread
10 L 9 D 8 H 7 B 6 F 5 K 4 G 3 A 2 C 1 E
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What Are You Listening To.....
this morning... Kate Bush - Night of the Swallow The Smiths - There Is A Light That Never Goes Out Black - Wonderful Life
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Big Brother 11 (The Last Series) Part III
I'm really really shocked that Ben went - for entertainment value, he was one of the best housemates in there - what are the general public thinking? Wrong result - it so should have been John James who couldn't even spell 'personality' nevermind have one....
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Big Brother 11 (The Last Series) Part III
Christ! Did anyone see Steve's wife on BBLB last night?! it's no wonder he's perving over all the women in that house.... I know I'd be in no rush at all to go home, personally :o ;) This task is the best yet - cruel as hell. I think BB should get those beds moving if John James and Josie keep lounging about in them... every time they settle, tip up the bed.... I'm bored $h!tless with them both - especially John James who couldn't get more stupid if he tried.
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What Are You Listening To.....
Agreed - the word ethereal can be a bit sick-inducing - but it's definitely a deserved description for Under The Ivy - how amazing that a song this brilliant only made a b-side. There's a box set called 'This Woman's Work' available.... all the studio albums up to Sensual World and a CD of all the extra tracks and b-sides - lots of which are easily good enough to be singles. Also includes a gorgeous book of photos. Boxset's usually about £50 on eBay - definitely worth that much. There's another song called 'Ne T'enfuit Pas' (think that's how to spell it).... another lost classic worth tracking down, which is on the 'extra tracks' CD in the box set - it's from The Dreaming era - stunning it is. After our KB chats, my playlist has been... Kate Bush - Under The Ivy Kate Bush - The Song of Solomon Kate Bush - Delius had these 3 pretty much on repeat.... Delius sounds great in the car, with the footsteps travelling from speaker to speaker....
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The CD Single/Album Cover Design Comp
1st on it is then please, Steve, 'Skegness' ;)
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What Are You Listening To.....
it's beautiful.... and this track, and This Woman's Work, both make me fill up a bit, gotta be honest. I like how it's really short..... a true case of quality over quantity ;)
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The CD Single/Album Cover Design Comp
There's quite a few trials for Adobe PhotoShop online - free for 30 days kind of things, which is the legal way to get this pricey programme - however, it's easy to download illegally, too... and there's loads of online tutorials to help you through - it's one of the easiest graphics programmes when you get used to it... and if anyone ever needs a hand with anything with PhotoShop, just message me, if I know how, I'll do my best to help
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The CD Single/Album Cover Design Comp
Thanks Steve... from yours - I like the 1st and 3rd one.... can't decide
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Mercury Prize 2010
It's a fantastic album - very 90s... but Baptism really is one of the singles of the year for me..... hideous artwork, though, but superb album.
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Big Brother 11 (The Last Series) Part III
They desperately need a fit gay lad in there...... Mario just CANNOT be the only gayer in that house - the shame of it.... :huh:
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The CD Single/Album Cover Design Comp
Robot... love the Crystal Castles cover you've made almost as much as I love the single itself - great stuff. Gorillaz for me this week... but not sure which one - Skegness or Northern Lights? :unsure: http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm76/blissfulignorance_2008/gorillazvf.jpg http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm76/blissfulignorance_2008/gorillazvf1.jpg
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The Greatest Pop Videos
Was the Duran director Russell Mucahy? And I agree, the videos from that era were great - in fact, one of my favourite Duran records was from that Big Noise (?) period - 'Do You Believe In Shame?' whhich, alongwith 'Come Undone' was, IMO, their career highlight - but hardly set the charts alight. I'd say the best Duran video was for 'The Chauffeur' - again, a fantastic song.... the video, all in black and white, with the girl in the back of the car getting eyed up by the chauffeur in the front seat... who turns out to be female, too. Lots of nipples and strange dancing - sexist as hell - but a very gorgeously shot video. Wedding Present - I can't ever say I was a fan of them to be honest..... always seemed a bit loud, laddy and jangly for me...? And Talk Talk - surely, alongwith Squeeze and XTC, Britain's most underrated band of all time.
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What Are You Listening To.....
Lene Lovich - Stateless Shakespears Sister - Sacred Heart Kate Bush - Pull Out The Pin
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Big Brother 11 (The Last Series) Part III
John James has studied Big Brother more than any other contestant on the show before him - he knows that relationships in the house, especially ones that aren't as cut and dried as they would be on the outside, work in keeeping interest in otherwise deeply boring housemates (i.e. - him). He also realises the value of the 'first kiss' photos when they leave the house etc. There's no way on earth this guy is interested in Josie - he just realises how popular she would be with the public. His only interest in her is giving him a bit of airtime, as he doesn't have the intelligence or intellect to hold his own in a room full of people. The guy's a fraud, spineless and deeply stupid. And for walking out of the fire exit last night just for some airtime and attention, there's absolutely no way he should've been allowed back in the house - end of.
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Big Brother 11 (The Last Series) Part III
I second that - I've come to the conclusion, with the appalling way he's treated the females in the house, that he doesn't actually like women very much at all.... in fact, he seems far more smitten with JJ than ANY of the females who've been in the house..... favourite to win? My damp-knickered dullard 14 year olds, maybe....
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Eviction 7 Part 2
PLEASE get John James out - the man is so spineless and devoid of personality, he needs his mother (Josie) in the house to give him cuddles and reassurement - one of my least favourite contestants EVER - if he was ugly, he'd be out in week 3 - especially now with the way he's playing Josie who, let's be honest, is too stupid and smitten to resist.
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Retrochart - 27th July 1996
One of THE great dance records of the 90s - incredible track....
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What Are You Listening To.....
Kate Bush - Moving New Order - Fine Time Lene Lovich - Flex - forgot what a truly brilliant album this, and her first, 'Stateless', is...
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Female Solo Artists Who Have Debut No.1 Singles & Albums
Kate Bush's debut single was number one... but the debut album Kick Inside' stalled at number 3, despite reaching platinum status in the UK. Shame, as this would've made her the first.... :(
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What Are You Listening To.....
Siouxsie - Mantaray (criminally overlooked) Emerson Lake and Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery Ben Watt featuring Estelle - Pop A Cap In Yo Ass - one of THE greatest singles of the noughties....phenomenal
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The Greatest Pop Videos
It wasn't a big hit at all, the McCulloch / Fraser duet, but it remains a very great record. Another Fraser collaboration worth checking out is the beautiful 'Downside Up', which she recorded with Peter Gabriel - there's a great live version on YouTube - absolutely lovely. Probably the best known of her collabs was her one with Craig Armstrong, the impossibly gorgeous 'This Love', which has been featured in several movies, most well known of these being Cruel Intentions from 1999. If you don't know the song, it's definitely worth checking on YouTube - stunning stuff. Candyland.... I have a vague memory of a Smash Hits poster of them - were they kind of Madchester-ish? Baggies? And one of them with a bleached mop top haircut? Don't remember their music at all though... The video by Depeche in the cornfield was It's Called a Heart, you're right - one of their weaker singles, but a great video all the same. Shake The Disease was the one with the band on wasteland, Martin Gore in a leather miniskirt, and it used some pretty, for the tiome, innovative camera work - I think the band actually had cameras strapped to their heads as they were moved upside down. And I remember 'comedienne' (I use the term loosely) Faith Brown used to impersonate Kate Bush, too..... the kookiest of all the Bush videos, dancing wise, was Hammer Horror, I thought very clever and again miles ahead of its time, just her and a black-clad dancer doing a dance routine with Kate looking rather delicious.